The shots are a big improvement on the White House’s global effort but far from the estimated 11 billion doses needed worldwide to end the pandemic
Biden before boarding Marine One to visit the G7, where he will announce his global vaccine strategy. Photo-Illustration: Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images Since the vaccine rollout began gaining momentum in the U.S. this spring, the Biden administration has faced serious scrutiny for buying up the global supply of shots, leaving developing countries high and dry as the U.S. scooped up 1.3 billion doses — enough to vaccinate every American three times over.
Continuing to improve on the process, on Wednesday the Biden administration announced a much larger effort to vaccinate the world, pledging to buy 500 million Pfizer doses to donate abroad. More details are expected when Biden details his global vaccine strategy at the G7 summit this weekend, but CNN reports that close to 200 million doses will be distributed in 2021 and another 300 million in the first six months of 2022.
In a statement on Wednesday, White House coronavirus-response coordinator Jeffrey Zients said the president intends to use the “momentum” of the U.S. vaccination effort to “rally the world’s democracies around solving this crisis globally, with America leading the way to create the arsenal of vaccines that will be critical in our global fight against COVID-19.
Perhaps more concerning is the timeline, considering that a horrific surge of the virus in India led the country to stop the Serum Institute of India — the world’s largest vaccine producer — from exporting doses so they could be administered at home. Because of this devastating wrinkle and American and European “vaccine hoarding,” COVAX had distributed only 3.4 percent of its 2 billion dose goal as of last month.
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